All 3 Uses of
disillusion
in
Atlas Shrugged
- I have been disillusioned so often......I'd like to tell you just one story.†
Chpt 1.7 *disillusioned = disappointed from losing false belief that something is better than it is; or the removal of such a belief
- He told it to me as an example of his disillusioned hope.†
Chpt 3.2
- I want you to observe, Miss Taggart, that those who cry the loudest about their disillusionment, about the failure of virtue, the futility of reason, the impotence of logicare those who have achieved the full, exact, logical result of the ideas they preached, so mercilessly logical that they dare not identify it.†
Chpt 3.2disillusionment = disappointment resulting from losing false belief that something is better than it is
Definition:
disappoint by removal of false belief that something is better than it is